Index takes a look inside George W’s “Axis of Evil” and at the people who will, inevitably, become the “collateral damage” in the event of war.
Inside the axis of evil
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CATEGORY: Magazine
Varieties of death
Death comes in many guises, not all of them related to the physical body. In this issue Index examines death in all its varieties.
Home and away: Diaspora voices
Index opens its pages to the voices of the diaspora, new and old, from Europe, Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East, some internationally known, others emerging in public for the first time.
Filling the silence: 30 years of Index
After 30 years, a magazine like Index should be redundant. It’s a disgrace that we haven’t closed it down and that you still feel the need to read it.
Squeeze on democracy: Crisis, terror and the media
Index explores the crisis of democracy posed by the joint forces of terrorism and globalisation.
The silence of madness
In this issue, Index on Censorship examines the issues around mental health and free expression.
Race matters
In this issue, Index asks why intolerance is rising and what it is we have to fear?
Identikit Europe: The politics of identity
In this issue, Index explores what we mean when we talk of a “European identity”. Is the EU simply a white man’s club? Or is there more to it than that? Who is Europe?
Memory and forgetting
Index looks at the orgy of “revisionism” with which the new century has opened and at the competing versions of “history” seeking recognition as the “official” version.
Last laugh
In this issue, Index on Censorship magazine explores laughter and censorship. Satire and offense. Censors have no sense of humour.
A quarterly journal set up in 1972, Index on Censorship magazine has published oppressed writers and refused to be silenced across hundreds of issues.
The brainchild of the poet Stephen Spender, and translator Michael Scammell, the magazine’s very first issue included a never-before-published poem, written while serving a sentence in a labour camp, by the Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who went on to win a Nobel prize later that year.
The magazine continued to be a thorn in the side of Soviet censors, but its scope was far wider. From the beginning, Index declared its mission to stand up for free expression as a fundamental human right for people everywhere – it was particularly vocal in its coverage of the oppressive military regimes of southern Europe and Latin America but was also clear that freedom of expression was not only a problem in faraway dictatorships. The winter 1979 issue, for example, reported on a controversy in the United States in which the Public Broadcasting Service had heavily edited a documentary about racism in Britain and then gone to court attempting to prevent screenings of the original version. Learn more.